Courses Required of All Majors
and Minors
Updated 12/05
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RLGN 102 Introduction
to the Study of Religion
RLGN 399 Major/Minor Seminar
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Area 1: Religious Texts and Traditions
RLGN 201 Literature
and History of Ancient
RLGN 202 Christian Origins and the New
Testament
RLGN 203 Introduction
to Judaism
RLGN 204 Introduction
to Asian Religions
RLGN 208 Introduction
to Western Religions
RLGN 216 Hinduism
RLGN 217 Buddhism
RLGN 218 Islam: Religion, Society and Politics
RLGN 219 Islam in
RLGN 221 Indian Philosophy
RLGN 285 Ancient Near Eastern Texts
RLGN 286 Archaeological and Extra-Biblical Sources for the
History of Ancient
RLGN 306 Interpreting Buddhist Texts
RLGN 307 Ancient World
RLGN 308/408 Problem of the Historical Jesus
RLGN 316 Modern Religious Thought: 1800 to the Present
RLGN 317 Recent Religious Thought
RLGN 330/430 Classical Jewish Religious Thought
RLGN 333/433 Philosophy of Religion
RLGN 341/441 Religion and Postmodernism
RLGN 343 Mysticism
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Area 2: Religion and
Culture
RLGN 105 Aspects of Jewish and Middle Eastern Religions and
Culture
RLGN 215 Religion In
RLGN 233 Jewish Folklore
RLGN 234 Women’s Folk Religion
RLGN 231 Modern Judaism
RLGN 234 Diversity and Women’s Folk Religion
RLGN 235 Religion and Visual Culture
RLGN 250 Religion and the Arts in
RLGN 266 Bible in Fiction--Fiction in the Bible
RLGN 270 Introduction to Gender Studies
RLGN 275
RLGN 303 Japanese Religions
RLGN 310 Japanese Film
RLGN 312 – The Mythical Trickster
RLGN 345/445 Religion and Horror
RLGN 366/466 Religion and Film
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Area
3: Religion in Society
RLGN 115
Ethical Problems in Local Perspective
RLGN 120
Comparative Ethics
RLGN 206 Religion and Ecology
RLGN 207 Religion and Feminism
RLGN 210
Philosophy of Religion
RLGN 223
Religious Roots of Conflict in the
RLGN 240 The Heavens in Religion and Science
RLGN 241
Religious Experience and the Life Sciences
RLGN 254 The Holocaust
RLGN
271 Bioethics: Dilemmas in Research and Clinical Practice
RLGN 280
Religion and Politics in the
RLGN 300/400
Archaeology of Biblical
RLGN 301/401
History and Ritual in Religion
RLGN 314/414
Jews and Christians in
RLGN 315 Heresy and Dissidence in the Middle Ages
RLGN 319 The Crusades
RLGN 325
Justice, Religion, and Society
RLGN 332/432
Jewish Experience in
RLGN 335 Issues
in American Catholicism .
RLGN 350/450
Jewish Ethics
RLGN 355 Religion and War
RLGN 372
Anthropological Approaches to Religion
RLGN 373
History of the Early Church: First Through Fourth
Centuries
RLGN 374
Reformation
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Other Religion Courses
RLGN 392
Independent Study
RLGN 395 Honors
Research